Way Back When

Way Back WhenWay Back When, Morton, Lois, Memoir, Saskatchewan history, Farming, Agriculture, Great Depression, Griffin, Weyburn, Lois Morton, box 9 In this volume, Lois Morton (1929 2006) writes a memoir of growing up and raising a family while farming in southeast Saskatchewan. She begins by sharing autobiographical statements and correspondence written by her parents and grandparents. Morton describes her fathers death in 1933 and the challenge that her mother

correspondence

From Christian clergy refusing to swear at wayward oxen to barn fires started by lightning

3 : A Report by the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians

Crescent Valley

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who set up a homestead in southwest Saskatchewan in 1914

Henry Birks and Sons

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While the second half of the volume is composed of family histories contributed by area residents

and Russ Pratt

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Atlas of Saskatchewan